How is it that I didn't know until the other day that Project Runway was a Parsons thing? You'd think they'd promote it around school.

Yeah, and the guy on the show from Parsons is really cool. He should be the host. A sexy bitch, some say.

Re: Vanessa. She just sounded stupid trying to defend herself by acting like she didn't know it was an interview. No one buys that, ever. Particularly if you do the interview after being filmed for weeks for a reality show. Dumbass.

I love Jay for calling her on her shit.

A friend of mine wants to come up with a Bravo show for my school. I say we're not glam enough and would need makeovers first.

Was it the Mothers Who Think forum at Table Talk who used "duck-nibbled"? I think that's the right phrase. It's just, doctor was supposed to fax in a prescription and apparently never did, so now I'm out of Zyrtec and sneezing, and I'm trying to buy an Amtrak train ticket, but the only choice they're giving me is Express Ticket Delivery for another $12.00 and why must everything be so difficult?

Blah.

I'm going back to due South fic.

Re Tom's link: I... well, that... oh, fuck. I can't even pretend anything but a sort of weary WTF-ever rolling-eyes-forever muted outrage.

Though, dude. Maureen Dowd wrote this column for the NYT (about the Gannon/Guckert mess, with a sidelong snarl at the fact that this asshole got a daily pass for over a year when she herself, who'd actually been a published DC journalist since the '80s, had her credentials rejected at the beginning of W's first administration) before that story came out. She must be seriously spitting nails now.

eta: Nibbled to death by ducks, IIRC. And now, off to work, for reals.

I want to state, for the record, that I just used the "Search" function for the first time (to find out what Allyson was posting about), and it's abolutely wonderful in every way. I almost want now to not know what people talk about, so that I can look for stuff.

Was it the Mothers Who Think forum at Table Talk who used "duck-nibbled"? I think that's the right phrase. It's just, doctor was supposed to fax in a prescription and apparently never did, so now I'm out of Zyrtec and sneezing, and I'm trying to buy an Amtrak train ticket, but the only choice they're giving me is Express Ticket Delivery for another $12.00 and why must everything be so difficult?

Blah.

I'm going back to due South fic.

I don't know about the MWT, but my own mother (who, coincidentally, thinks) loved the saying, "Being a mother of small children is like being pecked to death, by ducks."

She's not wrong.

I'm sorry your day is like this, Dana. I hope you get your medication soon.

Nilly, you can always help me try to track down "famous" conversations so I can quote them in my paper...

How lucky is it that the search function came into being right before I was *really* going to need it?

I often found that I learned more from the professors attitudes and approaches to what they were talking about, than I did from their words themselves, if that makes any sense.

Nilly, this is so interesting. I often find myself saying that the most important thing I do as an instructor is model for my students active, critical engagment. Sure, I have skills I can teach them, but really teaching writing is mostly about giving the students the opportunity to write and explore and pushing them to get themselves invested in the assignment.

I may have to kill someone. Somehow, in the past 24 hours, someone broke something vital. And now they are being clueless about fixing it.

Stupidheads.

you can always help me try to track down "famous" conversations so I can quote them in my paper...

vw, just ask, and I'm there (also, backsent).

the most important thing I do as an instructor is model for my students active, critical engagment.

Burrell, yes, this (also, good to post with you!).

I know that when I TA I try to outline out loud not just the actions I'm taking in order to solve a certain question, but also the thoughts behind those actions, why I chose the moves I chose, how to tackle the problem, not just the steps. Also, in science, at least from what I could see, the most important skills are not the actual material you can learn by practicing stuff that's written in books, but the intuition, the way-of-thought, the "feel" for the thing, in the lack of a better word. In writing I guess it's even deeper than that, from this aspect, as well.

[Edit: oh, sara, I'm sorry. Maybe you should send them to have Dana's day instead of her?]